
GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce Go 6800 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce Go 6800
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce Go 6800
109
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce Go 6800
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G86
NV42M
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
February 2005
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
MXM-III
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
300 MHz
Core clock speed
459 MHz
5 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
222 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
17
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
3.600
Memory type
GDDR3
128 / 256
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 / 256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1100 MBps
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
35.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A